Wicked: For Good
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Sep 24, 2026
Michael ThompsonHOST
Story number four starts with a question, actually.
Michael ThompsonHOST
What do Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Wicked star Cynthia Erivo, uh, the Finnish president, and the CEO of the Formula One have in common? They all received Global Citizen Awards in New York overnight, with the Atlantic Council recognizing Albanese for his work strengthening international alliances, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.
Michael ThompsonHOST
The PM used his speech to return to a theme that he has been pushing during his US visit, that the old global order is changing and that Australia needs to help shape whatever replaces it while preserving the rules that matter.
Michael ThompsonHOST
Plenty of star power in the room.
Michael ThompsonHOST
Story number four starts with a question, actually.
Michael ThompsonHOST
What did Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Wicked star Cynthia Erivo, the Finnish president and the CEO of the Formula One have in common? They all received Global Citizen Awards in New York overnight, with the Atlantic Council recognising Albanese for his work strengthening international alliances, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.
Michael ThompsonHOST
The PM used his speech to return to a theme that he has been pushing during his US visit, that the old global order is changing and that Australia needs to help shape whatever replaces it while preserving the rules that matter.
Michael ThompsonHOST
Plenty of star power in the room.
Janelle RileyHOST
This might've been one you workshopped and didn't go with, but no, I think you did.
Janelle RileyHOST
It was, it was a Michelle Yeoh pun about, was it Wicked?
Justin ChangGUEST
Yes.
Justin ChangGUEST
And how, because it was directed by John M. Chu.
GooHOST
... people really got into the idea of musicals, and then they really flamed out very, very quickly.
MacHOST
Well, Wicked 2 just wasn't nearly as good as Wicked, and that was part of the reason.
GooHOST
Well, that's the whole thing, is that, so the, the cultural touch point that the first Wicked was, people went fucking bananas over it.
MacHOST
Mm-hmm.
MacHOST
Well, it, it's just like, I- thematically, you know, song and dances work all the time.
MacHOST
Disney's been doing it for 100 years.
MacHOST
But if your musical doesn't have that one really tent pole song, like Wicked 2 lacked but Wicked had, they sort of get forgotten pretty quickly.
GooHOST
But the whole thing though, what I'm saying is that musicals in general, 'cause you got the Mean Girls musical, you had, uh, the Joker musical.
Mary MorganHOST
On a third screenshot here, you can see he commented on this headline, "Zoë Kravitz and Harry Styles are engaged.
Mary MorganHOST
Inside the alleged secret proposal fans never saw coming," to which he commented, "Y'all leave inside shit." [laughs] And [laughs] there's another comment that he left on a post about Cynthia Erivo that was during the Wicked press tour.
Mary MorganHOST
He said, um, "I agree with the first part, but the optics rub me the wrong way.
Mary MorganHOST
Cynthia is extra and problematic.
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Brett DasovicHOST
but he keeps the voice going.
Brett DasovicHOST
And there's lots of actors that do that, that keep the voi- Maybe they don't stay in character, but they keep the voice going 'cause it's harder to turn it on and turn it off.
Mary MorganHOST
That reminds me of everything people were saying during the Wicked press tours because Ariana Grande normally, you know, throughout her career, has had a pretty, uh, alto tone of voice in conversation.
Brett DasovicHOST
Mm-hmm.
Fred AsquithHOST
For anyone who's listened to the show for a while, you'll know whenever I review any adaptation of anything, I always say at the top that I'm reviewing the movie, not the adaptation.
Fred AsquithHOST
So when I reviewed Wicked Part 2, when I reviewed Wuthering Heights, whatever, even if it's a sequel, I'm not reviewing the original.
Fred AsquithHOST
If it's a reboot, I'm not reviewing.
Fred AsquithHOST
Do you know what I'm saying? Like, I review what's in front of me, going all the way to the fucking Odyssey as an extreme example.
Marcus CollickHOST
And then we came back for another week of rehearsal, adding in all the elements that we had recorded and then tech the show and then opened it.
Andrew TomlinsHOST
And what's crazy is that Wicked for Good had just come out.
Marcus CollickHOST
Had just come out, yeah.
Andrew TomlinsHOST
So in terms of Cynthia, where she was at, it was just a big time.
Jeremy ReedHOST
Well, you said the eating disorder movie and I knew.
Thoreau SmileyHOST
Yeah, what's funny is in between Wicked and Wicked for Good, what happened was that GLP-1s suddenly exploded in use.
Thoreau SmileyHOST
And you can tell.
Thoreau SmileyHOST
Because Cynthia Erivo went from being a nice-looking lady to being a nice-looking skeleton.
Tego SigelHOST
She's not having a good time, no. She's really good in Oz, though.
Tego SigelHOST
Wicked.
Tego SigelHOST
I haven't seen number two.
Tego SigelHOST
I haven't seen two yet.
Tego SigelHOST
Okay, then never
MilesPANELIST
mind.
Abz BusquetsGUEST
That's Wicked.
Abz BusquetsGUEST
Cynthia Erivo.
Tim OzmanHOST
I mean, I think they really do target market the psyops.
Tim OzmanHOST
That's another element that's going into the second edition of the book, which we witnessed after Wicked 2.
Tim OzmanHOST
And Wicked 2 had direct parallels to the anti-ice protests and to the death of renee good specifically wicked you know for good and we were talking about this you know so you have oz as trump the the um he's evicting a number of um the talking animals and the munchkins from oz so basically he's deporting everybody and the wicked witch is interrupting the deportations and fighting for them well and then of course she has to fake her death for the greater good And the whole thing's about the greater good.
Tim OzmanHOST
And then Renee Good dies and becomes this martyr for this cause where she's someone of more privilege because she's a citizen.
Tim OzmanHOST
And so she's the one who can be effective and she can fight the system.
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